Improved medical compound from oak-bark



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'sAnunL J. MILLER, or ECONOMY, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 96,943, dated November 16, 1869.

IIMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND FROM OAK-BARK.

The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern subject.

My remedy is compounded in the manner following, that is to say: 1 I

I take oak-bark, and extract its astringent properties, by boiling in water, untiLa tolerably strong solution is formed thereof. 1 nextmake a tolerably strong solution of lime, andmix the two liquids together, in the proportion of five parts of the oak-bark tea to one part of the lime-water.

I then evaporate the compound by boiling, until a thick paste is formed thereof, when I place it upon pans and dry it. ,Gare must be taken to filter the liquid properly before it is evaporated.

In the absence of lime, alkali may be used as a substitute, but I consider lime preferable.

The medicine above described may be prepared as an ointment, and used successfully in healing, not only piles, but various kinds of cutaneous diseases, as well as scalds' and burns.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The medical compound herein described, compounded of the materials and in the manner substantiallyas specified.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name, in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUELJ. MILLER.

Witnesses WM. SWAIN, EDWIN DENNIS. 

